7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

The first beer from this beer company brewing at Blaugies, named after and in honour of a long-defunct regional brewery, hence the old-fashioned label. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork, under high pressure but no gushing. Very rocky, inches thick, foamy, snow white, cobweb-lacing head over a misty straw blonde beer with golden hue, perturbed by very fierce, champagne-like sparkling. Aroma initially a bit lightstruck but once this fades, as it usually does, more flattering impressions come to the foreground: apple peel, parsnip juice, banana, pear compote, sweetbread, freshly cut dandelion stems, radish, bitter honey, jute, pineapple, hay, sweetclover, dough, plaster, cloves. Estery onset, some green apple acetaldehyde, banana and pineapple notes, light honeyish sugariness over a rounded, softly carbonated, slightly minerally middle with a fluffy, cereally, bready malt sweetishness; spicy phenols and lingering fruity esters complete a malty finish drenched in a floral, lightly wormwoody hop bitterness and bready yeastiness; the malt and estery sweetness keeps prevailing. Classically made 'saison', very pleasant, bready, yeasty and malty, clearly bearing Blaugies' house style and inviting to find out about the other beers under this "Gosselin F." label.